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New in our store: Reflections on the Bible: From Slavery to Freedom

Posted on June 23, 2021 by Randy Coleman-Riese

Reading the Bible is like looking out of a window and seeing a crowd out in the street shading their eyes and gazing with intense interest at something that we can’t see because of the roof of the building from … Continue reading →

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Holiday Parties (circa 1830’s Maryland)

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Randy Coleman-Riese

The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery. They are professedly a custom established by the benevolence of the slaveholders; but I undertake to say, it is the result of selfishness, and one … Continue reading →

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Turning Ourselves into Gifts

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Gil Bailie

“The modern world insidiously brings back forms of self-enslavement from which Western society had largely escaped during the Christian centuries.” – René Girard         “Our gratitude for the gift of ourselves must tend toward fashioning our whole … Continue reading →

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Unplanned

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Gil Bailie

  Archeologists in Peru have discovered 227 bodies of children sacrificed by the pre-Columbian Chimu culture to appease the gods of wet weather – the El Niño. “Wherever you dig, there’s another one,” the chief archeologist Feren Castillo said. We … Continue reading →

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The Battle of Lepanto

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Randy Coleman-Riese

  The Battle of Lepanto took place on October 7th, 1571. Occupied by the Turks in 1498, Lepanto is chiefly celebrated for the victory won by the combined papal, Spanish, Venetian, and Genoese fleets, under Don John of Austria. The Turks had 208 galleys … Continue reading →

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